10:01pm: Vague, unfinished thought about how getting a colonoscopy is like a handshake welcoming you to middle age.

10:02pm: Awareness that liveblog liveblog is taking the place of time previously committed to exercise.

10:10pm: Did dishes. Thought about a piece of literature I read earlier and tried to formulate an opinion of it, couldn’t.

10:12pm: “Toyed with” a theory I have that art that neither excites nor upsets could, and maybe, should be considered successful — not necessarily boring, but art that produces a calm indifference or zen-like lack of thoughts or opinions is reassuring in some ways. I don’t expect people to agree with me about this, but I hope they do.

10:15pm: Briefly wondered if I would end up regretting this liveblog and concluded “undoubtedly yes,” then recalled previous internet embarrassments and felt my asshole clench a little while a sudden weightlessness came over me.

10:17pm: Finished dishes, looked at phone.

10:24pm: Am watching Michigan – Syracuse basketball game on my computer via British stream of “ESPN America.” The commercials are amusing. It’s really early in the morning there (England).